The breakthrough came soon after when John II's captain Bartolomeu Dias returned from rounding the Cape of Good Hope in 1488, having explored as far as the Fish River ( Rio do Infante ) in modern-day South Africa and having verified that the unknown coast stretched away to the northeast.

In addition, he returned to the radio with a program named Buenos Dias, on radio station WBMJ-AM and worked, for a short period of time, as a television reporter for Noticentro 4.

This included Juan Dias ( ancestor of Bartolomeu Dias who rounded the Cape of Good Hope ), Gil Eanes, Lançarote de Freitas, Estevan Alfonso and Rodrigo Alvarez, who provisioned a squadron of six caravels to travel to isle of Garças in 1444, but returned with 150 Africans.

He returned to Portugal in February 1935, and was detained after instigating a September rebellion with the crew of the Bartolomeu Dias and the garrison in the Lisbon-area Penha de França.

This mission also failed and Dias de Novais returned to Portugal in 1564, leaving Gouveia behind.

* August – Bartolomeu Dias leaves Lisbon on his voyage to the Cape of Good Hope.

António Guterres was born and raised in Portugal's capital, Lisbon, son of Virgílio Dias Guterres ( b. São José, Lisbon, 21 October 1913 ) and wife Ilda Cândida de Oliveira ( b. Fundão, Donas, 12 February 1923 ).

In 1998 Madredeus contributed " Os Dias São A Noite ( Suso Saiz Remix )" to the AIDS benefit compilation album Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon produced by the Red Hot Organization.

An ink drawing of Meireles disembarking in Lisbon, by her first husband, Fernando Correia Dias.

* 1500 – Diogo Dias, captain of a Portuguese ship which was part of a fleet of 13 ships commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral, sailing from Lisbon to the East Indies, became separated from the fleet on May 23 west of the Cape of Good Hope ( South Africa ) and was blown south.

He married four times, firstly to Margarida Martins, without known issue, secondly with Branca Dias, fathering Branca Dias Perestrello, Dame of Queen Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, who was the mistress of Dom Pedro de Noronha ( Castle of Gijón, 1379-August 20, 1452 ), Grandson of King Fernando I of Portugal and of Grandson of King Enrique II of Castile, 4th Archbishop of Lisbon ( 1424 – 1452 ), by whom she had issue, including D. Pedro de Noronha, Lord Chamberlain to King John II of Portugal, his son, D. Martinho de Noronha, was sent by King John II to escort Christopher Columbus from Restelo to Vale do Paraíso, a property belonging to the Order of Santiago located Northeast of Lisbon.

Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, GOTE, GCA, commonly known as Manuel Gomes da Costa (), or just Gomes da Costa ( Lisbon, January 14, 1863 – Lisbon, December 17, 1929 ), son of Carlos Dias da Costa ( b. Soure, Soure, Cotas ) and wife Madalena de Oliveira and older brother of Lucrécia and Amália, was a Portuguese army officer and politician, the tenth President of the Portuguese Republic and the second of the Ditadura Nacional.

By December 16, the fleet had passed the Great Fish River ( Eastern Cape, South Africa )-where Dias had turned back-and sailed into waters previously unknown to Europeans.

After having sailed past Angola, Dias reached the Golfo da Conceicão ( Walvis Bay ) by December.

* December 5-Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos is named Prime Minister of Angola.

He was appointed Interior Minister on 16 December 2002 by Prime Minister Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos.

Menasseh was born on Madeira Island in 1604, with the name Manoel Dias Soeiro, a year after his parents had left mainland Portugal because of the Inquisition.

In the same year, Diogo Dias, as one of the Captains of the fleet to India of Pedro Álvares Cabral, is separated from the main fleet by a storm while crossing the Cape of Good Hope, and becomes the first European to reach Madagascar.

Later that year, Dias sailed with the explorer known as Lançarote in a large scale slaving expedition to Arguim.

* 1488 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.

* August 10 – Diogo Dias discovers an island which he names St Lawrence ( after the saint's day on which it was first sighted ), later to be known as Madagascar

* February 3 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa, becoming the first known European to travel this far south and entering the Indian Ocean.

* 1500 — Diogo Dias discovered an island they named after St Lawrence after the saint on whose feast day they had first sighted the island later known as Madagascar

European contact began in 1500, when the Portuguese sea captain Diogo Dias sighted the island after his ship separated from a fleet going to India.

In September 2003, after the world tour for 3, Mikey Doling, Marcelo Dias, and Roy Mayorga all made the decision to leave the band and together they departed from Soulfly, leaving Cavalera as the lone remaining core member for a period of three weeks.

Construction was interrupted by the death of Captain José Marcos de Albuquerque and resumed after the widow, D. Maria Paula de Camargo, married to Lt. Col. Thomas Dias Batista Prestes.

The school passed on after 19 years to the Principalship of Mrs Gwen Dias Abeysinghe, a past pupil.

Shortly after he urged Pope Benedict XVI to appoint more Asians to positions of power in the Roman Curia, Cardinal Ivan Dias became prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

Soon after, she made another telenovela, Dias sin Luna ( Days Without a Moon ).

** Diogo Dias discovered an island they named after St Lawrence after the saint on whose feast day they had first sighted the island later known as Madagascar

Allan Dias, PiL's bassist since the spring of 1986, quit the band in the summer of 1992, some months before PiL itself went on hiatus.

Trapped by contrary winds, Dias spent several harrowing months in the area.

Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais founded Luanda in 1575 as " São Paulo de Loanda ", and the region developed as a slave trade market with the help of local Imbangala and Mbundu peoples who were notable slave hunters.

The current executive secretary is Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, who took up this post on 15 February 2012.

* 1497 – Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.

Dinis Dias soon came across the Senegal River and rounded the peninsula of Cap-Vert in 1444.

Twenty-eight years later, Bartolomeu Dias proved that Africa could be circumnavigated when he reached the southern tip of the continent, now known as the " Cape of Good Hope.

In 1488, Bartholomeu Dias rounded the southern tip of Africa under the sponsorship of Portugal's John II, from which point he noticed that the coast swung northeast.

* 1575 – Luanda, the capital of Angola is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.

According to some, the modern name of the mountain is Diaforti ( Gell gives " Dioforti " or " Dioforte "), which is presumed to consist of two Greek words: " Dias ", the name of Zeus in modern Greek, and " fero ," a verb meaning " I bring ," thus meaning that Mount Lykaion is a mountain that brings Zeus.

Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais founded Luanda on 25 January 1576 as " São Paulo da Assumpção de Loanda ", with a hundred families of settlers and four hundred soldiers.

On St. Laurence's Day in 1500, Portuguese explorer Diogo Dias landed on the island and christened it São Lourenço, but Polo's name was preferred and popularized on Renaissance maps.

European contact began in 1500, when the Portuguese sea captain Diogo Dias sighted the island.

* 1822 – In Parnaíba ; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.

In 1444 Dinis Dias went off the mouth of the Senegal River to reach the westernmost point of Africa he calls Cabo Verde, Cape Vert, because of the lush vegetation seen there.

In: Prudêncio, I. Dias, I. and Waerenborgh, J. C.

* Bartolomeu Dias ( – 1500 ) – Portuguese explorer.

** Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer ( b. c. 1450 )